Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 8)

It's like ice cold electricity passing through your body.

When you put your best foot forward, it rubs off on someone.

It's like a wizard in sheep's clothing.

Like the Good Book says, let him who is without sin… be the rollin’ stone.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Let's clear up a loose end.

The monkey is in your court.

Gorilla see, gorilla do.

I don’t think we should jump at straws here.

I should move to the other side of the building, so I can see the sunset come up every morning.

Fiddling with his guitar

He clams up tighter than a drum.

We need to have photographic ears.

I knew enough to realize that the alligators were in the swamp and that it was time to circle the wagons.

I'm shooting from the seat of my pants.

He wanted to get out from under his father's coat strings.

That's putting the chicken before the cart.

People were streaming out of town to escape the floods.

It's on the tip of my frontal lobotomy.

The early bird gathers no moss.

The greatest thing since sliced beer.

They'll never buy the cow if they can get the eggs for free.